A remix of Dvorak's 9th Symphony. 
Part of the Sonøren project:
https://soundcloud.com/sonoren


The Story:

I took the competition organised by Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin (http://bit.ly/1cMRrA8) as an opportunity and a challenge to work with and within the following restrictions and framework:
- Use only the samples provided, and work in 3/4 time.
- Use exclusively granular synthesis to form the existing instruments, sounds and textures into other timbres.

I took each sample and "tuned" it so as to be able to play them.  I then sketched out various ideas, taking 4 key phrases (from the piece and the samples) to build ideas around.  I recorded playing these parts, and then used them as the building blocks of the final track.

I'd like to express my thanks to Robert Henke/Monolake for developing the Granulator (II) instrument, and then giving this away.  It's an amazing piece of work, which I used here exclusively to build each individual sound, and it is truly admirable to share it with the community as he has done.

It was also a real learning experience to listen to the original by Antonín Dvořák, and in some way try to emulate the wonderful way he modulates between light and dark, fast and slow, muted and boisterous.  

A link to the original piece:
https://soundcloud.com/dsoberlin/anton-n-dvo-k-symphonie-nr-9
A link to a slower performance conducted by Celibidache, which is also interesting (if controversial for the slow tempo):  I recommend listening to the whole symphony, of course.
http://youtu.be/_9RT2nHD6CQ?t=30m10s

Link to a youtube video about the ideas and working method behind the piece:
http://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=AO-0t0spCfw

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Another World - by Sonøren - Dvorak Remix (DSO Berlin Competition)

My father and I decided to exchange some "sonic postcards".  He sent me recordings of him playing the cello (often from before I was born) and I am sending back my own re-interpretations of those.  A difficult but exciting project.
This is the first postcard.

Sonic Postcard #1 with Haflidi Hallgrimsson, Cellist

Postcards & Soundtracks is (for me) an explosive release of ideas, feelings and memories from the last 8 years I've spent living in my adopted hometown of Brussels. 

Heartbreak, Reflection and a sort of Redemption. Yes, I know, a dramatic description, but I can only truly say that I made all of these from the heart, and as such are very dear to me. 

They are also largely made up from real sounds out of my life; recordings from city streets, inside my home, from my past. I've turned these sounds into new soundtracks from old ones, from slow and contemplative to upbeat and more driving. It's also the first time I sing as sonøren. 

I'm releasing the album on one of 8 postcards that I've made of this city. I'm doing this because I came to the realisation that my photography and my music were one and the same; a reflection and celebration of life, of a place and of certain experiences, and again, I know these are big words, but I use them humbly and sincerely. 

If you would like to receive a postcard please go to the merch section of my site, and I'll send you one, with a hand-written message. 

These are my postcards and soundtracks. 
Thanks, 

sonøren
credits

Postcards & Soundtracks

Meaning

Beside Myself

I Believe In You

I Believe in You

Tapes

Postcards

Never Knew

Her Streets

Quiet Compromise

Music by Andri Søren (fka sonøren), about taking sounds from ordinary life and making songs, soundscapes and soundtracks from them.  Contact: AndriSoren@gmail.com - There's no particular genre or style as each is born out of a particular mood or moment.

Beside that, I'm a performer and producer, spanning the genres from house and techno to soundtracks and soundscapes, going in-between bright, low-tempo melodic numbers to dark, driving electro and dark, lush ambient electronica.  

My performances are highly improvised, based on an ever-developing live set into which years of synth-hunting, technique-development and ideas have gone.  I start with a blank canvas, and starts painting.  Now and then I mix this live set with playing out existing tracks, a sort of hybrid DJing.

Learning to play the piano and the violin from an early age, and once a tenor in a choir, the impulse behind live performances are to enjoy as much as possible the possibilities of improvisation and experimentation, employing the incredible versatility of 'digital' performing techniques and tools such as step-sequencers and modulation automation together with the analogue through the playing and performing of various instruments; sampled, synthesised, or sung.  It is the moment of making, of creating which is the most exciting, rather than performing an existing track or piece as  successfully as possible.

Bio:
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, with Icelandic origins, Andri is currently based in Brussels; the vibrant, chaotic and contradictory capital of Europe and Belgium, active organising club nights and concerts as well as performing and producing.

Andri has performed at venues across Europe, including the Beursschouwburg, De Haus, Bazaar/Zukunft & Bruxelles les Bains in Brussels, Stockholm S in Antwerp, Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, and during the Gentse Feesten and Iceland Airwaves in Reykjavik.

► Contact & Bookings:
I perform as Sonøren, Native Speaker and Neon Type.  Please get in touch at andrisoren at gmail dot com

Thanks for listening,

sonøren 
(sono = sound, øren = ears)

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